# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（承認健康保険組合） — address `suppl-2111-70/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（承認健康保険組合） — (Approved Health Insurance Society) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-2111-70/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8 **第一項** 政令で定める要件に該当するものとして厚生労働大臣の承認を受けた健康保険組合（以下この条において「承認健康保険組合」という。）は、第百五十六条第一項第一号、第百五十七条第二項、第百六十条第十六項及び前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、介護保険第二号被保険者である被保険者（同項の規定によりその保険料額を一般保険料等額と介護保険料額との合算額とされた特定被保険者を含む。第四項において同じ。）に関する保険料額を一般保険料等額と特別介護保険料額との合算額とすることができる。 suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 A health insurance society approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as meeting the requirements specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as an "approved health insurance society" in this Article) may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 157, paragraph (2), Article 160, paragraph (16) and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, make the amount of insurance premium relating to an insured person who is an item (ii) insured person (including a specified insured person whose amount of insurance premium has been made the sum of the amount of general insurance premium, etc. and the amount of long-term care insurance premium pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph; the same applies in paragraph (4)) the sum of the amount of general insurance premium, etc. and the amount of special long-term care insurance premium. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の特別介護保険料額の算定方法は、政令で定める基準に従い、各年度における当該承認健康保険組合の特別介護保険料額の総額と当該承認健康保険組合が納付すべき介護納付金の額とが等しくなるように規約で定めるものとする。 suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 The method for calculating the amount of special long-term care insurance premiums referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be specified in the constitution in accordance with standards specified by Cabinet Order so that the total amount of special long-term care insurance premiums of an approved health insurance society each fiscal year and the amount of long-term care payments to be paid by the approved health insurance society are equal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の政令は、介護保険法第百二十九条第二項に規定する政令で定める基準を勘案して定める。 suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3 Cabinet Order referred to in the preceding paragraph is specified in consideration of standards specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 129, paragraph (2) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 承認健康保険組合の介護保険第二号被保険者である被保険者に対する第百六十二条の規定の適用については、同条中「介護保険料額」とあるのは、「特別介護保険料額」とする。 suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 Regarding the application of the provisions of Article 162 to an insured person who is an item 2 insured person of an approved health insurance society, the phrase "long-term care insurance premiums" in the same Article is replaced with "special long-term care insurance premiums". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: この条 → 健康保険法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-2111-70/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: 第百五十六条第一項第一号 → 健康保険法 第百五十六条第一項第一号 (Article 156, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-156/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-156/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-156/par-1/item-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: 第百五十七条第二項 → 健康保険法 第百五十七条第二項 (Article 157, paragraph (2)), art-157/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-157/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-157/par-2 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: 第百六十条第十六項 → 健康保険法 第百六十条第十六項 (Article 160, paragraph (16)), art-160/par-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-160/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-160/par-16 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: 前条第一項 → 健康保険法 附則第七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)), suppl-2111-70/art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-7/par-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1: 第四項 → 健康保険法 附則第八条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (4)), suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3: 前項 → 健康保険法 附則第八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)), suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3: 介護保険法第百二十九条第二項 → e-Gov law 409AC0000000123, 第百二十九条第二項 (Article 129, paragraph (2)), art-129/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-4: 第百六十二条 → 健康保険法 第百六十二条 (Article 162), art-162 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-162 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-162 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第七条第一項（特定被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-7/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第八条第一項（承認健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-1 - 健康保険法 附則第八条第二項（承認健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-2 - 健康保険法 附則第八条第三項（承認健康保険組合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-2111-70/art-8/par-3 - 健康保険法 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-4121-140/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4121-140/art-7/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch health-insurance-act-20261010T183826-008, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10